From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:41:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] real_path: make real_path thread-safe
Message-ID: <6cae7549-72f2-e591-ad48-28d449a62caf@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161208075555.GA23595@tb-raspi>

Am 08.12.2016 um 08:55 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen:
> Some conversion may be done in mingw.c:
> https://github.com/github/git-msysgit/blob/master/compat/mingw.c
> So what I understand, '/' in Git are already converted into '\' if needed ?

Only if needed, and there are not many places where this is the case. 
(Actually, I can't find one place where we do.) In particular, typical 
file accesses does not require the conversion.

> It seams that we may wnat a function get_start_of_path(uncpath),
> which returns:
>
> get_start_of_path_win("//?/D:/very-long-path")         "/very-long-path"

We have offset_1st_component().

-- Hannes